Wil Haygood's memoir of his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, is an uplifting and unsparing celebration...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • Award-winning author and journalist Wil Haygood e...

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Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

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Winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History, ...

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Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots a...

Over the course of his forty-year career, Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal d...

For decades one of America's most recognizable stars, the real Sammy Davis, Jr. has long remained...